{"product_id":"sonnets-isbn-9780375411779","title":"Sonnets","description":"\"A sonnet is a moment's monument,\" said Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a sonnet about sonnets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sonnets in this collection—whether they capture moments of perception, recognition, despair, or celebration—reveal how great an amount of feeling, insight, and experience can be concentrated into a mere fourteen lines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are classics such as Milton's \"On His Blindness,\" Yeats's \"Leda and the Swan,\" and Frost's \"The Oven Bird,\" juxtaposed with the mischievous wit of Rupert Brooke's \"Sonnet Reversed,\" the lyric defiance of Mona Van Duyn's \"Caring for Surfaces,\" and the comic poignancy of Philip Larkin's \"To Failure.\" From the lovelorn laments of Dante and Petrarch to the artful heights of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, from the masterpieces of Wordsworth and Keats to the innovations of Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and James Merrill, the sonnet has proved both versatile and enduring. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis delightful anthology displays the incredible range and power of the verse form that has inspired poets across the centuries.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN HOLLANDER\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. His first, \u003ci\u003eA Crackling of Thorns\u003c\/i\u003e, was chosen by W. H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He wrote eight books of criticism, including the award-winning \u003ci\u003eRhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Work of Poetry, \u003c\/i\u003eand edited or coedited twenty-two collections, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, \u003c\/i\u003eand (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) \u003ci\u003eJiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana Universities and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. In 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He died in August 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSonnet #116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWilliam Shakespeare \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet me not to the marriage of true minds\u003cbr\u003eAdmit impediments: love is not love\u003cbr\u003eWhich alters when it alteration finds,\u003cbr\u003eOr bends with the remover to remove.\u003cbr\u003eOh no! It is an ever-fixèd mark\u003cbr\u003eThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;\u003cbr\u003eIt is the star to every wandering bark,\u003cbr\u003eWhose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.\u003cbr\u003eLove's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks\u003cbr\u003eWithin his bending sickle's compass come;\u003cbr\u003eLove alters not with his brief hours and weeks,\u003cbr\u003eBut bears it out even to the edge of doom.\u003cbr\u003eIf this be error and upon me proved,\u003cbr\u003eI never writ, nor no man ever loved. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOctober\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHelen Hunt Jackson \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBending above the spicy woods which blaze,\u003cbr\u003eArch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun\u003cbr\u003eImmeasurably far; the waters run\u003cbr\u003eToo slow, so freighted are the river-ways\u003cbr\u003eWith gold of elms and birches from the maze\u003cbr\u003eOf forests. Chestnuts, clicking one by one,\u003cbr\u003eEscape from satin burs; her fringes done,\u003cbr\u003eThe gentian spreads them out in sunny days,\u003cbr\u003eAnd, like late revelers at dawn, the chance\u003cbr\u003eOf one sweet, mad, last hour, all things assail,\u003cbr\u003eAnd conquering, flush and spin; while, to enhance\u003cbr\u003eThe spell, by sunset door, wrapped in a veil\u003cbr\u003eOf red and purple mists, the summer, pale,\u003cbr\u003eSteals back alone for one more song and dance.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301951099109,"sku":"NP9780375411779","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375411779.jpg?v=1767736973","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/sonnets-isbn-9780375411779","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}